Governance Committees

The ACFID Board is supported by two permanent governance sub-committees, and one independent governance committee - the Code of Conduct Committee (CCC). These committees report to the Board at each of their four annual meetings.

ACFID’s Code of Conduct is independently governed on behalf of the ACFID Board and ACFID Council by the ACFID Code of Conduct Committee. The CCC is created by Council and operates in accordance with a ToR approved by ACFID’s Board. The CCC has autonomy in decision making in regard to determining the Code signatory status of ACFID members, compliance assessments and complaints handling.

The Board is also informed by a number of non-governance expert reference groups. These groups report to the Chief Executive Officer and as required to the Board, and play an important role in building the knowledge and capacity of the sector.

The purpose of the Finance and Audit Committee is to assist the Executive Committee of ACFID to fulfil their corporate governance and oversight responsibilities in relation to financial reporting, internal control structure, risk management systems and the external audit functions.

The primary purpose of the Membership Admissions Committee (MAC) is to review applications from organisations that want to become members of ACFID and to make recommendations to the Code of Conduct Committee (CCC) and ACFID’s Board.